Zodiak To Distribute Wikileaks Documentary

We’re still waiting for Wikileaks: the movie but in the meanwhile, here is Wikileaks: the documentary. Zodiak Rights, the international rights division of Zodiak Media Group, has signed a deal with news agency Premières Lignes to distribute their documentary Wikileaks: War, Lies and Videotape.

Wikileaks: War, Lies and Videotape, directed by investigative reporters Luc Hermann and Paul Moreira, is described as a revealing documentary dissecting the controversial website whose journalists and hackers have gathered and published hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents. It follows the site’s enigmatic founder and new new enemy No. 1 of the Pentagon Julian Assange, including his recent arrest in London. Among the people interviewed for the documentary is Daniel Domscheit-Berg, former Wikileaks No.2 and spokesperson of the Wikileaks team, who is now a dissident after he quit the company this summer to open his own whistle-blowing website and publish a novel about “his time at the world’s most dangerous website”. He claims that Wikileaks is too centered on the figure of Julian Assange with an authoritarian style which contrary to the originally planned transparency-focused mission.

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One has to wonder whether such a documentary would really be that revealing… as WikiLeaks seems very much to be the type of product of the so-called intelligence community, which uses these iconic revealations for their own end.

FDR said “nothing happens in politics by accident” and thats more true today than ever. Disinformation, smoke and mirrors… if Assage really was the hero he’s been built up to be and the massive amounts of “leaked” material was really that damaging, he wouldn’t be alive today to enjoy his new celebrity status!

Jack • on Dec 17, 2010 7:10 am

Not really true. Daniel Ellsberg delivered damaging information to the War in Vietnam. What he did with the Pentagon papers was heroic. The government went after him and put him on trial and he’s still alive today. Julian is just doing the same thing that Daniel Ellsberg back in the 1960s.